Yemen Activation?

[VE3YF]

Guys:

For what it's worth, I seen a tweet on the 7O6T website stating that they were going to try to be on RTTY 18hrs/day starting today. However I take that with a grain of salt as they were not on 18hrs today, and with a RTTY contest on this weekend it will probably be a WARC weekend for 7O6T RTTY Operations. Still have not given up working them on RTTY, but very frustrating when they shut down when sigs are getting good in NA. They need to kick it up a notch and fire up 3 x RTTY Stations everyday.....Just my ranting, hate when I take a day off from work, just to stay home and work them and still no RTTY contact...

73 De Mike
VE3YF

[K0RS]

Last night I got a 30M QSO CW which was definite, but not in the log

Yeah, me too.  Seems like a lot of Qs missing.  I duped him on 30 tonite, something I don't like to do, but thought in necessary to be safe.  Hopefully this one is the real deal.  If it's not, this guy sure has his style down.  Tonite's QSO was @ 0113Z.

Got the 6O on 30 tonite too, and that one's already in the online log.

[AF3Y]

Guys:

They need to kick it up a notch and fire up 3 x RTTY Stations everyday...

73 De Mike
VE3YF

Gee, you really dont want much, do you?    73, Gene AF3Y

[N5UD]

Guys:

They need to kick it up a notch and fire up 3 x RTTY Stations everyday...

73 De Mike
VE3YF

Gee, you really dont want much, do you?    73, Gene AF3Y

I am still hearing stateside guys calling on CW and SSB.

This includes east coasters. For sure mid-west and west coast still need 7O.

Well even I had a good run out mobile earlier. Lots of QRN from storms, but managed 5 QSO's
with 7O and 6O in one hour. No I sure didn't get 40 meters. QRN had them covered up for sure.

Just a few calls to break through on 30 CW for 6O.

73 Tony N5UD /M

[N1UK]

Just my ranting, hate when I take a day off from work, just to stay home and work them and still no RTTY

Yes I have been looking for them on rtty ever since they started but I haven't heard them working rtty at all even though their ssb signals have up to S9+30 here.


Mark N1UK

[AC4RD]

I wonder how many of us are not in the log due to working "slims"?  Last night I got a 30M QSO CW which was definite, but not in the log, and my 40M CW QSO is not in the log from a few days ago...unless they are having selective logging update issues, ...

I worked them on Thursday night local, and it looked like my contact should have been in the online log on Friday--it was earlier than the "last QSO in the log" time/date during the day on Friday.  But my 17m CW QSO  didn't show up online until Saturday (today.)  I'm guessing there is a lot of variability in what logs get added when.  Which is OK by me--I've "worked" them 4 times by my own count, but as long as one of them is in the log, I don't mind if the other three go to my "Worked All Slims" count.  :-)   There are times I feel like I must be close to earning a spot on the DXCS (DX Century Slim) Honor Roll.   :-) 

I'll say it again--there are some great ops at 7O6T!  I was weak last night on 15m CW but the op queried me to make sure he had my call right.  These guys are doing a great job!

[K4JK]

I was just going to post the same thing... Worked them Thursday night on 17, but the QSO didn't show up in the next day's upload. It got there in the next one though. I guess the station working 17 doesn't get to upload its logs as often.

[NU4B]

CONGRATS LARRY, I KNEW YOU COULD DO IT, THOSE CW OPS WERE VERY GOOD, YOU ARE SLOWLY CATCHIN UP TO ME, SURE WOULD LIKE TO SNAG THAT A5 OPERATION IN JUNE, FUNNY, A5 IS LIKE WAY DOWN THE LIST, BUT STILL NEED FOR ALL TIME NEW ONE, ANYWAY CONGRATS AGAIN 73 DAN WG5G.

Hey Dan,
 This might interest you. I worked 7O6T with my HW-9 last night. Its No. 245 for the old HW-9.  So its still plugging along. I don't know for how much longer - its 28 years old this year! I worked the 7O on 15 meters. The upper sideband suppression on the HW-9 is not as good as it should be and if you zero beat the signal (if its loud enough) and then go a tad further you can hear a faint, but readable copy of the upper side of the signal, as long as nobody is calling close to the DX signal. Then you can use your RIT to get "up 2" or as much as "up 2.5". I have to measure it to see exactly how far I can go. In any case it helps when a DX station won't go down to "1 up".  (I know it was never designed for DXing, but a remote VFO option would have been nice  ). I don't know if all HW-9s are like that. Mine was one of the first - so it may have been fixed (but maybe not haha). Anyway a nice trick that works sometimes. The HW-9 was running 4 watts to a HF5B. 7O6T was booming on 15CW last night.

73, Larry NU4B

[N4NYY]

OK. No luck for me. Maybe I am just in a crappy area, as they are weak. They did say the USA was weak today while on 17M.
Anyway, they gave me some entertainment. When they moved to 7.178, apparently that is a net frequency. Well, as you can imagine, that did not go over well with the net people. So the fun began. Of course, the DX cops were not all that polite. So it resulted in some entertaining radio, to say the least! LOL

[W2IRT]

The ClusterCrabs were out in full force today I see:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/463425/ClusterCrab.jpg

[AC4RD]

The ClusterCrabs were out in full force today I see:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/463425/ClusterCrab.jpg

ROFL!!!  Hilarious!

I was astonished by some of the comments I saw:  "Why no RTTY on 80 meters?"  "Receiver must be broken"  "PSE LISTEN FOR <LOCATION>" ...    

Somebody sent a cluster comment, making fun of those crabs, that made me laugh out loud:  "PLEASE 160M FM"  

These guys went to a tough location and gave a new one to THOUSANDS of DXers; I think we owe them gratitude, not whining.

[HS0ZJU]

They have been active on rtty since day one. Not sure why they waited until yesterday to activate 10rtty. Hopefully 40m rtty tonight.

[WG5G]

CONGRATS LARRY, I KNEW YOU COULD DO IT, THOSE CW OPS WERE VERY GOOD, YOU ARE SLOWLY CATCHIN UP TO ME, SURE WOULD LIKE TO SNAG THAT A5 OPERATION IN JUNE, FUNNY, A5 IS LIKE WAY DOWN THE LIST, BUT STILL NEED FOR ALL TIME NEW ONE, ANYWAY CONGRATS AGAIN 73 DAN WG5G.

Hey Dan,
 This might interest you. I worked 7O6T with my HW-9 last night. Its No. 245 for the old HW-9.  So its still plugging along. I don't know for how much longer - its 28 years old this year! I worked the 7O on 15 meters. The upper sideband suppression on the HW-9 is not as good as it should be and if you zero beat the signal (if its loud enough) and then go a tad further you can hear a faint, but readable copy of the upper side of the signal, as long as nobody is calling close to the DX signal. Then you can use your RIT to get "up 2" or as much as "up 2.5". I have to measure it to see exactly how far I can go. In any case it helps when a DX station won't go down to "1 up".  (I know it was never designed for DXing, but a remote VFO option would have been nice  ). I don't know if all HW-9s are like that. Mine was one of the first - so it may have been fixed (but maybe not haha). Anyway a nice trick that works sometimes. The HW-9 was running 4 watts to a HF5B. 7O6T was booming on 15CW last night.

73, Larry NU4B

[WG5G]

STILL TRYING TO FIGURE THIS POSTING OUT, WAS RESPONDING TO LARRYS POST ON THE HW-9, I REMEMBER WORKING FO0XX BACK IN 1985, THEY WERE CALLING CQ EU ON 40M ABT 3AM LOCAL TIME, THEY WERE PEGGING MY S METER, I WAS ABLE TO HEAR THEM ON OPPOSITE SIDEBAND, USE MY RIT AND MANAGED MY FIRST CLIPPERTON IS. QSO. SOMETIME LATER THE VERY FIRST PETER 1ST ISLAND DXPEDITION CAME ON- 3Y1EE AND 3Y1GV, COULDNT GET MY RIT TO SPLIT 45 KC, SO I WAS A SWL ON THAT ONE, SOON AFTER, THE TS 130V AND VFO 120 WERE BORN, REST IS HISTORY, FUNNY THING, ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO CALL ON THE WRONG VFO, HI HI, AND YES I STILL HAVE MY HW-9, JUST THOUGHT THIS MIGHT STIR UP SOME MEMORIES OF THE GOOD OLD DAYS, CONGRATS AGAIN, IMAGINE WORKING 7O WITH AN HW-9 AND WIRE ANT, QRP FOREVER, 73/72 DAN WG5G/QRP.

[K7KB]

YAY!! - I was finally able to work 7O6T on RTTY this evening. I got a break when they were calling for West Coast only. 3 bands and 3 modes. Not bad for this time around

John K7KB